After playing ten turns agains AI which was easy going as you can imaging, hatemf90 and I have started a 1vs1. We are at turn 12 now, so the AAR is written with some delay.
Topic of the scenario is the landing in France on D-Day and the first days of getting a foot in the door to the continent. The scenario is not based on a historically correct situation – so everyone who thinks this is very important might stop reading here. But I think it is a very interesting scenario and it is worth giving it a try. This AAR shall give you an impression about the secanrio and maybe gets some more players interested.
The scenario covers the time from 5th of June til 5th of July, each turn lasts a day. Due to the short time span technical improvements/ upgrades don’t play a role in here. Production of few PP is only necessary to have some points for deploying new units if necessary.
The Allies start at the English coast, having a lot of fighters, bombers, and of course transport planes for parachuters. All heavy equipment and non-airborne units have to be send by transport ships. Allies have a lot of them, as well as five battleship groups for shore bombardment.
Axis has no navy. It starts with some weak infantry units and some artilley at the coat but most units are placed in some distance to the coast and have to be set in march when the invasion begins.
An interesting aspect is that Allies player does not only have to decide where to land and attack but to decide as well whether it is preferable to send first as much fire power to the other side and send HQ at last or whether HQ should be send earlier to support the frontline units from the beginning. As well you have to decide when is the best time to resupply the transport ships as they will run out of supply after some time and move very slowly across the channel then.
So here we go:
June 5th 1944
From a couple of airfields in South England large groups of transport planes started to bring parachuters of 101st US Airborne, 82nd US Airborne, and British 6th Airborne across the channel. Landing behind enemy lines the parachuters should cut supply lines to German units at the coast and prepare the landing of infantry and armoured forces that started to cross the channel on transport ships.
On the right flank 29th US Div. and US 1st Army approaches the French coast, while 3rd British Infantry Div. will land in the center. At left flank French 2nd Armourd Div. will land, supported by Canadian units of 2nd British Army.
The Germans have only small groups of mainly conscripts and some fortified artilley as coastal defend placed at the shores. They are the target of combined Allied air force attacks. Battleship groups got orders to do shore bombardments on entrenched conscripts but are not yet close enough to open fire.
